Auteur: Mitnick, KD

Édition: New Ed

Nombre de pages: 368

Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons

Date de sortie: 17-10-2003

Détails: The world’s most celebrated hacker delivers the lowdown on today’s most serious security weakness – human nature. « Finally someone is on to the real cause of data security breaches – stupid humans… Mitnick… reveals clever tricks of the « social engineering » trade and shows how to fend them off. » Stephen Manes, Forbes. « A tour de force, a series of tales of how some old-fashioned blarney and high-tech skills can pry any information from anyone. As entertainment, it’s like reading the climaxes of a dozen complex thrillers, one after the other. » Publishers Weekly. « Mitnick provides hair-raising examples of social engineering – disgruntled employees stealing top-secret research, smooth-talking con men acquiring data on next-generation explosives for terrorists – and explains how to combat it, » Angela Gunn, Time Out New York. « He was the FBI’s most-wanted hacker. But in his own eyes, Mitnick was simply a small-time con artist with an incredible memory [and] a knack for social engineering… This is Mitnick’s account, complete with advice for how to protect yourself from similar attacks. I believe his story. » Simson Garfinkel, Wired.